The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1887-01-27
CURRENT TOPICS.

Vic uOTScS III ittSuuTSHs
GINGER equal to the Jamaica is growing
on Caloosahatchie river, Fla.
ENGLAND proposes to tax foreign work
men twenty-five dollars year.
ST. LOUIS has one saloon to every 175 peo-
pie and one church for every 1850.
AT Louisville, Nathan Bloom, dead
merchant, had funeral mile long.
THERE is proposition to change Inaug-
uration day from March to April 80.
The Connecticut General Assembly re-
elected General Hawley U. =. Senator.
SMOKED red, whatever that may be, 10
named among the new fashionable colors.
TEXAS wants Congress to pass . law
against dealing in grain and cotton futures.
KANSAS has over s4O,OOO Of school funds
idle in the treasury awaiting investment.
IT now seems probable that the first OF
April will see every army in Europe in the
field.
Ex-SENAroR JOSEPH E. McDoNALD's Lave
practice Is said to be worth near $4,000
per year.
SOCIALISTS in America are sending money
to Germany to help their brethren out al
the polls.
In Neuvo Leon, Mex, q woman recently
two girls.
TINY toboggans now 'dangle from the
bangle" worn by the progressive girl Of
the period.
ToBoGaAN note paper and envelopes have
appeared in time to be mixed up with the
craze Of the hour.
In Upper Alton, ILL.,, there are 1877 marri.
ageable young women and only eighteen
eligible single men.
Four prosperous citizens Of New York
earn their livelihood as doctors for the lap
dogs of rich women.
THEY have been experimenting with
juries of six men in Michigan, and the peo-
pie seem to bs satisfied.
MONTANA turnips" is the name by
which $6OO or 500 Jumps of bullion arc
known in that Territory.
THE new aqueduct in New York has thus
far caused the slaughter Of siXty-one men
and the serious injury of 12S others.
JUDGE STANLEY MATTHEW'S house inv ash
ington has fine music room, containing a
9ipe organ and concert grand piano.
QUEEN VICTORIA never eats any but stale
bread. This, however, is believed to be
more matter of taste than necessity.
No doubt anxiety to see herself in becom-
ing mourning led Miss Van Zandt, of Chi
cago, to desire to wed Anarchist Spies.
THE heating Of cars by steam from the
locomotive boiler has been tried with sue
cess on several New England railroads.
FRENCH ladies are wearing dresses Of
plaid wool this winter. The latest fancy
is to have all the plaids of the skirt bias.
PETER B. SWEENEY, the 'brains" of the
Tweed ring, to-day walks the streets of
New York unknown, unuoticed, stout and
shabby.
AN Irish landlord with rent roll Of
5000 per annum has been obliged to go to
the poor house because he can't collect any
of his rents.
The Galveston Ners wants passenger
cars $50 constructed that they will fall to
pieces when they turn over, so that people
can escape"
CONGRESSMAN GRAIN, Of Texas, Tom
Ochiltree's successor, is the only native
born Texan in the delegation from the
Lone Star State.
THE oldest surviving holder of diploma
from Dartmouth is Abraham T. Lowe, M.
D., of Boston, who was born in 1875 and
was graduated in 1916.
In the northwest provinces of India, in
cluding Oudi, there are 100000 Hindoos
and Mohammedans, crowded into an area
of 106, 103 square miles.
ALMOST every government in Europe be.
lieves that war will be precipitated when
''the flowers that bloom in the spring.
make their appearance.
NEW JERSEY education statistics show
thirty-eight thousand children, between
the ages Of seven and twelve, did not At
end school last season.
OsCEoLA, town on the west side of the
Cascades, in Washington Territory, boasts
of schoolmistress Of eighteen summers
and weight of $50 pounds.
The remains Of California's noted bene-
factor, Lick, have been deposited in Q
niche in the foundation on which the great
Lick telescope is to be placed.
CHICAGO invested G2, ,O0O, 900 in building
enterprises in 1886. It is estimated that
but for the strikes the amount invested
would have reached $50 900.
THE situation in Europe forcibly reminds
one Of lot Of irate old women jawing
over back fence, each one afraid to
throw the first pan of hot dishwater.
The New York Star says that Mrs. Lang
try is engaged to be married to Mr.. Geb-
hard, and that the divorce from her first
husband is all that delays the ceremony.
JOSEPH w. DRExEL, who has retired
from business and lives comfortably on
his accumulated fortune in New York
began life on q salary Of one dollar
week.
JOHN Coon, Of Brooklyn, who worked in
cordage factory ten or twelve years age
at $50 a day, has since perfected invon
tons which pay him an annual royalty of
el50,0O0.
OVER 1900 cubic yards of limestone and
slate rock has fallen out Of the bank of Nj
agara river, near Horseshoe Falls, ON
the Canadian side. The break has CON.
siderably changed tho appearance Of the
bank.
SoAE friends Of Princeton College have
provided funds to send an expedition from
this country, in charge Of Prof. Charles A.
Young, to observe the eclipse Of August 10
In Russia.
AARk TWAIN said, recently, when asked
whether 1t was true that he proposed to
start newspaper in Hartford: "Oh, no!I
shall never start Q newspaper 30 long as
can buy three for less than it costs to have
my boots blacked." l|
TEE Queen Of Greece takes her airines
In carriage for which she paid 5000. Il
Was built for the triumphal entry of the
Comte dc Chambord into Paris. which new
Or took place, owing to circumstances
sver which the Comte had no control.
OsrRIcH farming has been introduced in
India, South Australia, the River Platte
and New Zealand, besides California ana